North Korea describes Trump’s threat as the “sound of a dog barking”

The North Korea government has mocked the fierce warning issued by US President Donald Trump in his first address at the 72nd UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, The Guardian reports.

Trump in the speech said the US would be forced to “totally destroy” North Korea if pushed to the wall. He also echoed his earlier tweet where he called Kim “rocket man”. The President said, “Rocketman is on a suicide mission for himself and his regime.”

Catch up on Trump’s UN speech here.

According to South Korea’s Yonhap news agency, the foreign minister said, “There is a saying that the marching goes on even when dogs bark,” citing a Korean proverb.

“If he was thinking he could scare us with the sound of a dog barking, that’s really a dog dream,” he added. In Korean, a dog dream is one that makes little sense.

When asked what he thought of Trump’s description of Kim as rocket man, Ri replied, “I feel sorry for his aides.”

Trump’s stern warning came on the heels of North Korea’s defiance at pursuing its nuclear adventure which has seen the regime fired six nuclear missiles, the latest being the launch of two ballistic missiles over Northern Japan.

Meanwhile, varying with China’s continuous push for a dialogue, Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, told the UN General Assembly that previous talks had yielded nothing and called for a global blockade that would deny North Korea access to “goods, funds, people and technology” for its missile and nuclear programmes – arguing that sanctions was preferable to negotiation.

Restating his support for US’ position that all options, including military action, remained on the table, Abe said “We must make North Korea abandon all nuclear and ballistic missile programmes in a complete, verifiable and irreversible manner. What is needed to do is not dialogue, but pressure”.

While warning that enough time has passed over the North Korean crisis, Abe cited the failure of a 1994 agreement between the North and the US to freeze Pyongyang’s nuclear programme, and the stalling of six-party talks almost a decade ago was proof the regime would not respond to dialogue.

North Korea had “no intention whatsoever of abandoning its nuclear or missile development. For North Korea, dialogue was instead the best means of deceiving us and buying time. In what hope of success are we now repeating the very same failure a third time?” He added.

South Korea’s president, Moon Jae-in, equally berated the idea of continued dialogue as posited by China and instead related with Washington’s stand.

In a statement from the presidential Blue House, Moon’s office said he welcomed Trump’s “firm “ speech to the UN. “It clearly showed how seriously the United States government views North Korea’s nuclear programme as the president spent an unusual amount of time discussing the issue,” the statement said.

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